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Andrew Tate Arrested

This is a developing story. Originating from the Romanian outlet Libertatea, claims are coming that Anrew's Tate home in Pipera had been raided by Romanian police. An hour later, it was reported that Romanian police had taken Andrew and his brother into custory. The raid was carried by

SBF met with White House Aides

This is still a developing story. Sam Bankman-Fried held at least four meetings with White House officials, while his brother Gabriel had another meeting. Bankman met most recently on September 8th, and the meeting was unreported by the White House. He also met on April 22, May 12th, and May

US has announced Covid-19 tests for China

Three years after the pandemic began, the US will require travellers from China to submit a negative Covid-19 test beginning on January 5th 2023. China has said its Covid infections are 'predictable and under control'. However, China is likely seeing 1 million Covid cases and 5,000 deaths

Gary Wang and Caroline Ellison Cooperating with Federal Authorities Against SBF, all charged with defrauding investors

This is still a developing story. As SBF, the cofounder of FTX and Alameda Trading, has been extradited to the US, it has been revealed by the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/technology/ftx-fraud-guilty-pleas) that both Gary Wang and Caroline Ellison are cooperating with authorities

Trump Announces NFTs

Trump, a critic of crypto, has announced an NFT collection. In the announcement, he promises numerous benefits including member benefits including a raffle. There is a commercial: https://twitter.com/unusual_whales/status/1603442427473571841 Trump had said he had a big important announcement on Tuesday of this week. The announcement

FTX Senate Lobbying

2021 Annual Reports: Assets, positions, transactions Here are all the relevant FTX and SBF donations for today's Senate hearing. Note: Must copy link first, click hyperlink, click the Agree to Terms button, then paste link into browser. # Agriculture Committee Member Party Notes SBF Donation AMT SBF Pac Recipient

Vaccinated people now make up a majority of covid deaths

For the first time, a majority of Americans dying from the coronavirus received at least the primary series of the vaccine. Fifty-eight percent of coronavirus deaths in August were people who were vaccinated or boosted, according to an analysis conducted for The Health 202 by Cynthia Cox, vice president at

Genesis warns of bankruptcy without new funding

Per Bloomberg: Genesis, a digital asset brokerage, has been unable to raise cash over the last week and may file for bankruptcy. Genesis has faced a liquidity issue post FTX, and is looking for 1 billion in capital. Binance had been tapped, but did not comment and did not provide

Trump's Account Reinstated On Twitter

After a Twitter poll conducted by Elon Musk, where slightly more than 51% of people voted for Trump to return to Twitter, the realDonaldTrump account is reinstated. Donald Trump has been banned from the platform in January 2021 after the January 6th events. His account is slowly returning with former

Poland has been hit by potential Russian Missles, debris, developing story.

Two rockets suspected of being fired by Russia landed in the Polish border town of Przewodów killing 2 people. Poland has announced an emergency security meeting as a response. Senior US Intelligence officials have now confirmed the story, and confirmed Russian missles. AP, Bloomberg, and other media outlets are now

Elon Musk Fires Twitter Employees Critical of Him

Numerous Twitter Employees have been fired from the private company Twitter after being taken over by Musk. However, a small handful new employees wer elet go after being critical of Elon Musk on Twitter publically, as well as privately in the company's Slack. They were sent an email

Elon Plans to cut 75% of Twitter's employees

Musk told the prospective investors to buy Twitter he would plan on getting rid of approximately 75% of twitter's 7500 workers, for a staff of around 2000. Cuts were also being planned to infrastructure, data centers, and other corporate operations. This reporting is per the Washington post, with

Congressional Committees and Conflicts in Stock Trading

Introduction Congressional committees are specialized sub-organizations within Congress that handle, form, and approve new legislation that is deemed to be under that committee’s jurisdiction. In the previous Congressional trading reports [https://unusualwhales.com/i_am_the_senate], the trading behaviors of the House and Senate were explored, now it’

SEC Rejects Grayscale Bitcoin ETF

The SEC has rejected the Spot Bitcoin Grayscale ETF. Many people assumed the SEC would accept it given BITO and other ETFs. Here is the full ruling: https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/nysearca/2022/34-95180.pdf

Celsius Network hires advisors to prepare for potential bankruptcy

Celsius Network has hired restructuring consultants from advisory firm Alvarez & Marsal to advise on a possible bankruptcy filing, the Wall Street Journal reported [https://www.wsj.com/amp/articles/celsius-network-taps-more-advisers-to-prepare-for-potential-bankruptcy-11656088078?mod=Searchresults_pos1&page=1] on Friday. Celsius has not provided any media requests, and have not had

Unusual Options Activity in Bed, Bath, and Beyond. (BBBY). Someone always knows.

Unusual Options Activity in BBBY before their deal on Friday. Today, April 25, 2022, among the underlying components of the NYSE, we saw unusual or noteworthy options trading volume and activity in BBBY right before close and news of their buybuy baby potential buyout: Literally moments before news, huge $16/

Unusual Options Activity in Jumia Technologies AG ADR. (JMIA)

Unusual Options Activity in JMIA Today, April 20, 2022, among the underlying components of the NYSE, we saw unusual or noteworthy options trading volume and activity in JMIA 8 C 4/22/2022: * This was one with a volume of 3047 with OI going down from yesterday. * Before the stock

Unusual Options Activity in East Stone Acquisition Corp. (ESSC), and Equitrans Midstream Corp (ETRN)

Unusual Options Activity in East Stone Acquisition Corp. (ESSC) Today, April 18, 2022, among the underlying components of the NYSE, we saw unusual or noteworthy options trading volume and activity in ESSC 5/20/2022 C $12.50 [https://unusualwhales.com/flow?limit=50&ticker_symbol=ESSC] * This was

Unusual Options Activity in Pulte Group. (PHM), and Twitter, Inc. (TWTR)

Unusual Options Activity in Pulte Group. (PHM) Today, April 12, 2022, among the underlying components of the NYSE, we saw unusual or noteworthy options trading volume and activity in PHM 7/15/2022 P $40.00 [https://unusualwhales.com/flow?limit=50&ticker_symbol=PHM] * The following orders were

Unusual Options Activity in Momentive Global Inc. (MNTV), iShares China Large-Cap ETF (FXI), and Danaos Corp. (DAC)

Unusual Options Activity in Danaos Corp (DAC) Today, April 11, 2022, among the underlying components of the NYSE, we saw unusual or noteworthy options trading volume and activity in HMHC, which opened at $88.7. * There were 3672 contracts traded on the $105 strike call option dated for May 20th,

A review of Unusual Options Activity in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co (HMHC), iShares Global Clean Energy ETF. (ICLN), and Cenovus Energy Inc. (CVE)

Unusual Options Activity in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMHC) Today, April 06, 2022, among the underlying components of the NYSE, it is important to see how whales changed positions in contracts overtime. Looking at HMHC yesterday: * There were 36,235 contracts traded on the $22.5 strike call option dated for

Unusual Options Activity in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co (HMHC), iShares Global Clean Energy ETF. (ICLN), and Cenovus Energy Inc. (CVE)

Unusual Options Activity in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMHC) Today, April 05, 2022, among the underlying components of the NYSE, we saw unusual or noteworthy options trading volume and activity in HMHC, which opened at $17.50. * There were 36,235 contracts traded on the $22.5 strike put option dated

LULD Halts (Limit up, Limit down)

Today Gamestop (GME) and AMC both halted in a specific type of halt. These are limit-up-limit-down halts. These halts are intended to prevent securities from trading outside predefined bands of price/percentage change. Any change above or below those predefined bands within a five minute period creates a five minute

Unusual Options Activity in Mattermark (MTTR), Hilton. (HLT), and Ovintiv Inc (OVV)

A Review of Unusual Options Activity in MTTR Today, March 29, 2022, in the market capitalization-weighted index NASDAQ Global Select Market Composite (NasdaqGS), we saw unusual or noteworthy options activity in Service Properties: * Incredible amounts of new volume when on the MTTR 10 C calls for 4/14/2022. We

HYMC

Unusual Options Activity in Hycroft Mining Holding Corporation (HYMC), Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (CNK), and Blackstone Mortgage Trust Inc (BXMT)